Special Sesion

Special Sesion

WCF / Cineteca di Bolonia

Our wish to protect, recover and disseminate the film heritage of southern cinemas, especially films that have been forgotten or left behind, has prompted Cines del Sur and the World Cinema Foundation (WCF), which has Martin Scorsese at the helm, to organise special sessions of African classics restored by the Cineteca di Bolonia. This represents a unique opportunity to enjoy important titles.
  • Come Back, Africa

    Come Back, Africa (Come Back, Africa)

    Lionel Rogosin

    In the 1950s, American director Lionel Rogosin travelled to South Africa to make a film that spoke out against Apartheid. The film was made in secret, with the help of a famous group of intellectuals in Sophiatown; Lewis Nkosi, William (Bloke) Modisane, and Can Themba.
    A work of docufiction, Come Back, Africa blends documentary sequences about black South Africa with fictional elements that tell the story of Zachariah, a village man who travels to Johannesburg to look for work.

    South Africa 1960. 35 mm. B&W. 89’

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  • Harvest: 3000 Years

    Harvest: 3000 Years (Mirt sost shi amit )

    Haile Gerima

    Set in Ethiopia, Harvest: 3000 Years is the story of a peasant family's struggle to survive on the farm of a wealthy feudal landowner. The film's pace and visual style is geared to the rhythms of daily life, providing a sensitive portrayal of the details and dramas of everyday reality. The drama is set in motion by the teenage son and daughter who contest traditional social roles, the tyrannical behaviour of the landowner and the visionary and revolutionary deeds of the local 'madman'.
    Shot during the Ethiopian civil war in just two weeks, the film tells the story of an entire people and its collective longing for justice and good faith. In the words of Martin Scorsese, this film is “an epic, not in scale but in emotional and political scope".

    ETHIOPIA 1976. 35 mm. B&W. 139’

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  • The Journey of the Hyena

    The Journey of the Hyena (Touki Bouki)

    Djibril Diop Mambéty

    In Dakar, Mory, a shepherd who plans to sell his herd, meets a young female student. They both dream of going to Paris and for them any means is good if it helps bring in the money they need to make their dreams come true.
    Alternating between the poor quarters of Dakar and the representation of a Paris that is more symbolic than real, between tradition and modernity, between dream and reality, Touki Bouki is a classic in African film. Not just because of the amount of literature it generated in its day, but also because this work, the third by Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty, broke with the conventional syntaxis of African filmmaking.

    SÉNÉGAL 1973. 35 mm. Color. 88’

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